Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
“Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
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